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setraDinah posted a meme:
1. Grab the nearest book
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
"In such experiments, we can simultaneously monitor physiological events and perceptual performance. The psychophysical [or behavioral] task [we use] is designed so that good performance depends on signals of the kind carried by direction-selective cortical neurons. We asked three basic questions during the course of this investigation: (1) Is performance on the direction discrimination test impaired following chemical lesions of [area] MT [the cortical area in which motion-sensitive neurons are located]? (2) Are cortical neurons [in area MT] sufficiently sensitive to the motion signal in the random-dot [motion] display to account for psychophysical [ly measured behavioral] performance? (3) Can we influence [the monkey's] perceptual judgements of motion by manipulating the discharge [or neural activty] of directionally selective neurons with electrical micro-stimulation?
Decisions, Uncertainty, and the Brain by Paul W. Glimcher
(What? I'm in the downstairs office and I didn't bring Tarrant with me. >_>)
Other than all those cuts, I'm alive. Exhausted, but still going. Panicing about Saturday, wishing that I could call in both days, but I really can't... not after they've been so sweet about letting me take off for the kid's school and stuff. Not looking forward to calling in in the morning, but I think I have to. I really do need the break. I'm losing it and I feel overwhelmed. And calling off Saturday to then have to watch the twins all day seems counter to the idea of keeping myself sane. Still feel that gnawing guilt for thinking it though...
1. Grab the nearest book
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
"In such experiments, we can simultaneously monitor physiological events and perceptual performance. The psychophysical [or behavioral] task [we use] is designed so that good performance depends on signals of the kind carried by direction-selective cortical neurons. We asked three basic questions during the course of this investigation: (1) Is performance on the direction discrimination test impaired following chemical lesions of [area] MT [the cortical area in which motion-sensitive neurons are located]? (2) Are cortical neurons [in area MT] sufficiently sensitive to the motion signal in the random-dot [motion] display to account for psychophysical [ly measured behavioral] performance? (3) Can we influence [the monkey's] perceptual judgements of motion by manipulating the discharge [or neural activty] of directionally selective neurons with electrical micro-stimulation?
Decisions, Uncertainty, and the Brain by Paul W. Glimcher
(What? I'm in the downstairs office and I didn't bring Tarrant with me. >_>)
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| Appli-something Sample/test appliqué on right... actual cloak appliqué 1/2, partially complete on left. Thread is Gutterman rayon, materials are black and wisteria Casa satins. Photo courtesy of Jenshin. |
Other than all those cuts, I'm alive. Exhausted, but still going. Panicing about Saturday, wishing that I could call in both days, but I really can't... not after they've been so sweet about letting me take off for the kid's school and stuff. Not looking forward to calling in in the morning, but I think I have to. I really do need the break. I'm losing it and I feel overwhelmed. And calling off Saturday to then have to watch the twins all day seems counter to the idea of keeping myself sane. Still feel that gnawing guilt for thinking it though...
